50 ELORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Leguminose. 
C. australi et nana subsessili, in ceteris breviter unguiculato. Ovula in omnibus speciebus 6-8.—Genus 
e tribu Galegearum, ab omnibus affinibus distinctissimum, habitu (Daviesiarum inter Podalyrias, v. Bossie- 
arum inter Genisteas), floribus parvis, et presertim legumine. G. Bentham, MSS. 
Leafless shrubs or small trees, with woody trunks and compressed or tape-like branches, which bear impari- 
pinnate leaves, in a young state only.—Branches erect or drooping, bearing small racemes of flowers, smooth or 
silky at the tips. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, five-toothed. Petals nearly equal in length. Standard orbicular. 
Wings falcate, oblong, auriculate at the base. Keel blunt, ineurved. Stamens nine united, and one free. Ovary 
sessile, elongated to an incurved beardless style; ovules many, in two series. Legume obliquely orbicular, turgid, 
rostrate or mucronate, two-valved ; valves attached to a septum, which is persistent and bears one to three seeds.— 
This genus is confined to New Zealand: it belongs to a tribe (of the vast Order Leguminose) called Galegee, which 
includes Clianthus, but from which it differs totally in habit, and (as from all other Zeguminose) in the persistent 
margin of the pod. In habit it closely resembles some Acacias of New Holland, and still more closely the 
leafless genera Bossiea and Daviesia. The species have been indicated by Mr. Bentham: they are extremely difficult 
to distinguish, and require much further elucidation on the spot; the characters employed appear far too variable. 
(Named in honour of Captain Dugald Carmichael, an eminent traveller and Cryptogamie botanist.) 
1. Carmicheelia australis, Br.; ramulis floriferis elongatis ancipitibus latis aphyllis, racemis brevibus, 
bracteolis sub calyce minutis, ovario glabro, legumine (3—4-lineari) oblique ovato acuto erostri. Benth, MSS. 
C. australis, Br. Bot. Reg. 4.912. A. Cunn. Prod. C. Cunninghamii, Raoul, p. 29. t. 28. Bossiea sco- 
lopendra, 4. Rich. (non Auct.) Lotus? arboreus, Forst. De Cand. 4. Rich. Genista compressa, Banks 
et Sol. Ic. et MSS. 
Var. B. nana; ramulis floriferis brevissimis (1-2-uncialibus) confertis crassiusculis rigidis aphyllis. 
Var. y. grandiflora ; calycis dentibus elongatis, floribus magnis, bracteolis calyce impositis, ramulis 
foliatis, legumine brevi-rostrato. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, Forster, ete. Fl. November. Var. 8. Dry and mountainous 
country at the base of Tongariro, Colenso. Var. y. Milford Sound, Lyall. Nat. name, “ Wakaka ” of 
the northern, and “ Neinei” of the southern tribes of the Northern Island, Zyall. (Cultivated in England.) 
A large shrub or small tree, 6-15 feet high, with fastigiate branches. Branches 2 lines to $ inch broad, much 
flattened. Leaves on young plants imparipinnate, 3-1 inch long; leaflets oblong or orbicular-obovate or cuneate, 
two to four pair, obcordate, deeply bilobed, smooth; petiole compressed, slender. Zacemes 4--ž inch long, quite 
smooth or sparingly silky, six- to eight-flowered. Flowers 1-13 lines long ; peduncles bracteolate above the middle. 
Pods 3-4 lines long, obliquely ovate, acute or acuminate, not rostrate ; seeds one to two, black or red.—The variety 
B nana appears a mountain state, but the fruit is unknown.— Var. y has larger flowers than any species, 2-3 lines 
long; and the bracteoles are placed on the calyx itself; the pod beaked as in the following species. This forms at 
Milford Sound the food of the ground parrot. 
2. Carmichelia odorata, Colenso; ramulis floriferis elongatis crassiusculis rigidis seepius foliatis, 
racemis laxe multifloris, pedicellis infra medium bracteolatis, ovario glabro, legumine (absque rostro 2 lin. 
longo) ovato longe rostrato. Benth. MSS. 
Has. Northern Island. East coast, Colenso. 
A small bushy tree, distinguished from C. australis by its narrower fastigiate branches, which are usually very 
leafy, larger and more flowered racemes, and smaller pods, which are produced into rostra as long as the valves. 
Leaves (on the branches) pubescent, small; pinnules two to three pair, linear-oblong, two-lobed, 13—2 lines long. 
Flowers small, sweet-scented; peduncles bracteolate below the middle. Pods small, pale, obliquely ovate, one- 
seeded; the valves wrinkled, and the septum continued into a sharp nearly straight rostrum. 
3. Carmicheelia pilosa, Col. ; ramulis floriferis ancipitibus crassiusculis rigidis aphyllis novellis pilosis, 
